Hinge



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES F. HOFFRITZ, OF DAYTON, OHIO.

HINGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 50 4,162, dated August 29, 1893. Application filed March A27, 1893. Serial No. 467,697. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may'concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES F. HOEERITZ, acitizen of the United States, residing at Dayton, Montgomery county, State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hinges, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings. f

The object and nature of my invention will be fully apparent from the detailed description hereinafter set forth.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1, is a perspective view of a box provided with my improved hinge, the lid being shown opened. Fig. 2, is a rear perspective view of my improved hinge attached vto a box, the latter being partially broken away. Fig. 3, is a transverse section through the hinge and box shown in Fig. 2, on a slightly enlarged scale. Fig. 4, is an end view of my improved hinge,-

` the dotted lines indicating the position of the back-strip and lid of a box; in this ligure the hinge is shown enlarged over preceding figures.

My improved hinge is-rnore especially designed for use in connection with cigar boxes, but may be used in any other connection where applicable.

In the drawings, A represents the lid of a box, and B the rear orback-strip thereof, between which portions my improved hinge acts as a connection.

My improved hinge consists of two leaves, C and D, of suitable sheet-metal, the connecting portions of said leaves being bent to form the tubular bearings a and b, through which the retaining pin passes, in the usual manner. .The leaf, C, is angular shaped, in the usual manner, and is nailed to theedge of the lid, as shown. The leaf D, (to which my invention pertains) is formed with the inturned angular portion, d, through which the retaining nails, d2, are passed into the top edge of the back-strip, B, as shown. This angular portion, d, of leaf, D, is preferably formed by bending the metal upon itself forming a double thickness, as more clearly shown in Figs. 3 and 4. The leaf which is attached to the back-strip of the box has, heretofore, been formed of a straight fiat piece of metal, which necessitated driving the nails transversely through said strip and clinching them on the inner surface, which latter operation consumes time; and, in the construction of many thousand cigar boxes, much time is consumed in this operation.

My improved hinge, with the angular portion d on leaf D, provides for driving the main retaining nails into the edge of the material both of the lid and the body of the box; and, by this means, I am enabled to secure the hinges thereto much more efficiently and quickly than has heretofore been done, thus lessening the cost of manufacturingsaid boxes.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A hinge consisting of the two leaves C and D, the latter having an inturned angular portion, d, formed by bending the metal upon itself, substantially as set fort-h.

. CHARLES F. HOFFRITZ.

Witnesses: v

CHARLES SEYBoLD, W. H. EDWARDS. 

